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Twitter is the hottest trend in social networking. In 140 characters or less, people and organizations can inform and update followers around the globe online or through mobile phones. Never miss a magazine update, by following us, and sharing your thoughts on Twitter.


What is Your Risk?

A new global map of malaria has shows how severe the risks of contracting malaria are worldwide. Created by the Malaria Atlas Project, the map is the first in an annual series, which will help monitor and evaluate progress towards international targets for control and elimination.

A Teachable Moment for Children

A slideshow narration about how children in the United States can help children in need overseas. Narrated on behalf of CMMB by Samuel, an 8-year-old boy from New York, it offers a teachable moment for children on the unmet health needs of children in other countries. It is also a tool for children and youth interested in raising awareness about the needs of others and ways in which they can help alleviate poverty.

Cool Kits

MercyCorps offers a wide range of gifts at every price point to help people around the world. Mercy Kits, which range from an $18 emergency food kit to a $2,500 health clinic kit, come with a personalized card or email to the gift recipient.

Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars on iTunes

The documentary “Sierra Leone’s Refugee All Stars” is now available worldwide on iTunes. The award-winning film follows the band’s incredible journey, from living the refugee life as a result of the brutal civil war in their native Sierra Leone, to recording their first album. Filmmakers Zach Niles and Banker White have partnered with New Video to make the remarkable film available to an even wider fan base through iTunes and to continue spreading the film’s positive message of hope and peace.

AIDS in Mozambique

Vida Positiva is an honest insight into the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Mozambique. The documentary was created during a three-month internship with a local organization in Maputo, Mozambique.

The Next Phenomenon?

The Life You Can Save is the multi-country, mulit-media campaign against global poverty headed by ethicist and Princeton professor Peter Singer.

Rock Stars and CycleBeads

4REAL is a series of half-hour television shows that take celebrity guests on adventures around the world to connect with young leaders who, under extreme circumstances, are affecting real change. In one of the shows, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea is featured in a video using CycleBeads to explain the Standard Days Method in a rural health clinic in Haiti. In this one minute video clip, Flea spends time with a rural health agent of the Haitian Health Foundation, which provides health and humanitarian aid to rural Haitians. Click here and in the right column under Video chose the last box with the header “Birth Control.”